Hay-truck



A. LEGBAND.

HAY TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3. 1920.

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HAY TRUCK.

APPLICATION HLED JUNE 3. I920.

Patented Jun 14, 1921.

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ARTHUR LEG-BAN D, 0F 'SCRIBN ER, NEBRASKA.

HAY-TRUCK.

Application filed June 3,

To all whom'it may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR LEGBAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Scribner, in the county of Dodge and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Hay-Truck, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has reference to agricultural trucks, and more particularly to a novel truck for lifting or moving hay stacks or the like in a manner to maintain the stack in its usual compact form, to the end that the space required to store the hay or feed,.is reduced to a minimum.

An object of the invention is to provide adevice of this character having lifting prongs adapted to be forced throughthe stack under operation, thus insuring against the stack becoming displaced from the truck while thesame is being moved.

A further object of the invention is to provide novel means for forcing the lifting prongs into the stack so that the same will be firmly secured therein.

.Withthe foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 illustrates a plan View of one portion of the truck, disclosing the lifting prongs, a stack being shown in outline, by the dotted lines.

Fig. 2 illustrates a tion of the truck.

Fig. 3 illustrates a side elevational view showing the sections of the truck as assembled, and

Fig. 4 illustrates a front elevational view of the same.

Referring to the drawin section of the truck is ind iiated generally by the reference character 5, and which includes the beam 6 which supports the usual axle indicated at 7 and on which the wheels 8 are positioned, the wheels 8 being however provided with relatively wide tread surfaces to permit the truck to be easily moved over a field.

Secured to the beam 6, at opposite ends plan view of one secin detail, one

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 14, 1921. 1920. Serial No. 386,291. 7

will move with the beams 6.

. he forward extremities of these lifting piercing ends to permit a stack and pass therethrough, when the de vice 1s brought into operation. In order that these lifting prongs 9 may be main tamed 1n proper spaced relation with each other, the bracket bars 12 are provided, which bars have connection with the beam 6, as by means of the bolt 13 and have connection with the prongs 9 as by means of the bolts 14:.

Secured to each of the prongs 9 adjacent the inner ends thereof, are the eye bolts 15 which accommodate the hook members 16 that have connection with the pulleys 17 over which operate the flexible member 18, to be hereinafter more fully described.

Each of the pulleys 17 is supported in a frame, which is apertured to receive the ends of the flexible member 18, intermediate portions thereof passing over the pulleys l9 and 20 which are secured to the auxiliary flexible member 21, and which in operation is adapted to embrace a portion of the stack, under operation, and which for convenience and a clear illustration of the operation of the device, is indicated in dotted lines and represented by the reference character 22.

The forward section of the truck includes a beam 23 which is provided with a suitable axle for supporting the wheels 24:, the beam 23 being provided with cleats 25 for securing the fifth wheel 26 to the truck, the upper or body portion of the section being indicated by the reference character 27, and has connection with the fifth wheels 26 through the arms 28 which support the body portion 27 in spaced relation with the beam 28.

The body portion 27 is braced by the frame 29, and has links 30 disposed adjacent to the respective ends provide means for connecting the hook members 31 to the body portion 27, and which hook members when in operation, are adapted to cooperate with the clevises 32 which are connected to the lifting prongs 9 adjacent to the tapered extremities thereof.

he usual wagon tongue indicated at 33 has connection with the beam 23, and prothereof, which links 30 i to be secured against movement, when the truck for accomplishing the moving thereof, after a stack has been placed'there- V on. Supported by the body 27 is a hook member 34: that is associated with a bar 35 extending at an angle with relation to the body 27 and the tongue 33, there being provided an arm '36, which is secured adjacent to the tongue 33, the arm acting as a guide for the chain 37 employed for lifting the forward section of the truck.

It might be further stated that hook ele ments 38 are provided on the rear section of the truck which are adapted toaccommodate the flexible member 18, to permit the same the same has been drawnaround a stack.

In the operation of the device, the flexible member is placed around a stack in a manner as indicated by Fig. 1 of the drawings, whereupon power-is applied to the flexible member 18'at the attaching member 39 thereof, with the result that the prongs 9 are moved into engagement with the stack 22. It follows that upon further movement of the prongs 9, they are forced through the stack 22, the piercing ends 11 of the prongs v9 extending to a point beyond one plane of the stack 22. The clevises 32 are now applied to the prongs, and the body portion 27 ofthe front section of the truck moves to a position as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3 of the drawings, whereupon the hook members 31 are positioned in the clevises.

Power is ngw applied to the chain 37 to causethe. body portion 27 to move upwardly to a position as-indicated in full lines by Fig. 3 of the drawings, with the result that ward section.

is claimed as new is 1. In a truck, a rear section and a forward section, said rear section havinga pair of lifting prongs, means for forcing the lifting prongs through a stack, said forward section including a body portion, depending hook members carried by the body portion, clevises having connection with the prongs,

and said hook members adapted to engage within the clevises for lifting the lifting prongs and supporting the same in spaced relation with the ground surface over which the truck is adapted to move.

' 2. In a truck, a rear section and a forward section, a pair of prongs carried by the rear section and having piercing ends, means for moving the prongs through a stack, said forward section having a body portion, a hook member carried by the body portion, said forward section adapted to be tilted to permit the body portion thereof to lie in close proximity to the lifting prongs, means having connection with the hook member, for moving the body portion to an operative position, and means for connecting the forward. ends of the lifting prongs to thefor- Intestimony that'I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed'my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

. ARTHUR LEGBAND. WVitnesses':

. WILLIA CONRAD STEINKRAUS,

PAUL BECK. 

